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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-09-28

The Manchester City School Board
met in the Council chamber of that
city at 7:3O o'clock last night in regu-
lar monthly session. Present at roll
call Messrs. F. G. d. Farmer (presi-
denD, d. J. Weisiger (secretary), j. R.
Perdue, W. L. Robinson, W. w. Pool,
&. A. Peple and Mr.. klexander Fitz-
gerald, princip.l of the white schools.
superintendent Maurice came in q few
minutes later.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-09-28

Mr.. Fitzgerald asked TINT at the ez.
piration of tire present scholastic month
he be ALLOW ed to examine those of his
echolars who failed to receive certifi-
Gates or diplomas at the finll examina
ton last cession, and that diplomas be
cwarded those who pass the examination
creditably. He asked that this apply as
well to those who are not attending
school this session as to those who are.'
He thought many were staying away
from school on this account. 1t will
be remembered that llost of these
scholars failed TO receive certificates not
because they were deficient, but be-
cause they had admitted giving or re-
ceiving assistance, which was contrary
to Mr.. Fitzb erald's rules.
The board unanimously grarsed the
permission asked. This scholastic
month ends October 7th.
VISIT THE SCHOOLS.
Superintendent Maurice urged the
members of the board TO visit the
schools whenever they can make 1t
convenient to do so.
After the transaction OF routine busl-
ness the board adjourned.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-09-28

The committee awarded contracts Tor
feed for city stock es follows: I. II.
Deane & Co.-Hay (Virgiuia), sl4.65.
Aly@y Brothe1s-Corn, s52. O.. i.
Todd-Oats, S3445; brown stuif,
sl6. 40; ship stuff, Sl7.i0; salt, sl.l9 J;
straw, s44 sheai oats. $50.
kdIouiaed.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-06-23
State Press Comment.

Louisiana journal ssThe people
have confidence in Gen. Nicholls.-
No matter how many political bosses
may support him the people know
that these bosses cannot control or
influence his official conduct"
Marksville Review: eve defy any
paper in the State to show us q purer
Democrat, q truer patriot . drawer
and more incorrupible man in Lou
isiana, than Gen. Nichols. His very
virtues have caused much Of the op-
position against him. He is for the
people and not for the politicians.-
The people want him and the people
viii have him for their next Cover
nor"
I.ouisiana Journal: stGov. Mich
oils administration was surrounded
with embarrassments and difficulties
which no other Governor has had to
encounter. His wise discretion, CON.
sentative statesmanship, cool courage
and determination redeemed the
State from Radical rule. This gen.
ersl result should excite the admira,
ton and gratitude Of the people,
Any other plan than his might have
failed
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-06-23

It is . great pity the law cannot
reach those who were engaged in the
great wheat and coffee deals. Men
who viii gamble in and produce an
artificial scarcity Of the necessaries
Of life in order to squeeze money out
Of their victims, ought to spend a
period Of contrition in jail.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-06-23
Common Honesty.

This seems to be an age Of specu-
lation and peculation. There are
many forms Of what is now called
speculation thatare nothing but forms
of gambling, and that lead directly
to theiving and swindling.
There is q demand for common
honesty in every part Of the land
The pulpit and the press need to
preach it, and the schools and heads
of families need to teach it every day.
The ideas of many reputable appear
ing people as to the difference be-
tween ssmine and thine" are very lily
defined in early youth, and the thirst
for wealth in maturer years and the
powers of acquisitiveness tend to
make them obscure indeed.
Money and property are not the
greatest Of earthly blessings. A clear
conscience and an upright character
are acquisitions that wealth can not
buy, and that preclude the wronging
Of any human being. The pauper
who has integrity has greater and
more imperishable possession than il
without integrity he could duplicate
the bank accounts of all the Roths-
childs.
Yet it is the great popular error Of
the day that the chief objects in life
are to accumulate money and achieve
fame. A large proportion of the hui
man race subordinate nearly every.
thing to the attainment Of these OBJ
iects and fail in the end. The com.
parative few who succeed have theil
labor for their pains. Wealth and
power are found to be cloying an6
unsatisfactory, and the cares Of the
rich and great are far greater thar
those of the poor and obscure.
| Those who in early life are laugh
to appreciate the true value of homes
ty and Of character are very apt Il
have their feet directed in the path
that lead to contentment and happi
ness.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-06-23

The boycotting Of a store in
Augusta, Ga, ny the Carpenters and
Joiners' Union because its proprie-
tors viii not agree to close at six
O'Clock, suggests that they might as
well have decided that the house has
no right to do business at all.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-06-23

High taxes on coal, iron, wood,
wool, blankets, clothing, and other
necessaries Of life, and no tax on
whisky-that is the slogan Of the Re
publican and Democratic protection
lists. Low taxes on the necessaries
Of Hs-that is the platform of the
Democratic revenue reformers,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-06-23

New Orleans Chronicle: "The
Chicago Inter- Ocean says the men
who engaged in the wheat deal and
advanced the price to 6 and 8 cents
per bushel higher than the supply
and demand will justify, are crimi-
nails, robbing society, and against
whom some law must be enacted
Millionaires who ssbunko" the country
out of honest savings create more
suffering and anarchy than Most,
Spies and others contemplated"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-06-23

Memphis Avalanche: Instead of
having poet to write an Independ-
ence day ode, the people Of the
United States would do well to get
out proclamation in prose declaring
the Independence of the American
nation of monopoies."
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-06-23

VIM. e. Chandler, who was elected
United States Senator from New
Hampshire last Thursday, was main
" responsible for the Electoral fraud
Of 1876. That crime against popular
sovereignty ought to have condemn
ed him to life Of obscurity forever.
He was also responsible for much of
the rottenness in the navy depart
nent, fact that should not have
contributed TO his promotion.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-06-23

Herr Most's party is q queer COM
bination Of anarchists, thugs and
blackguards and the sooner it lis sup
pressed the better for all concerned.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-06-23

Fairchilds, futile, Foraker and
other idiots, have raised ga tempest
IN . tea pot" over the matter, and the
President has reconsidered his order
and the captured Confederate battle
hags will not be returned to the
Southern States. The South did not
ask their return, but Mr.. Cleveland,
his Cabinet and Gen. Drum gracefully
made the offer Of their restoration,
and the Southern people would have
proudly welcomed the return Of these
honored relics of . lost cause. But
Il has been decided that the captured
flags shall all remain in government
custody at Warrington. Though
honorsd and revered by her people,
The South can do without her battle
Aags- The deeds OF valor Of her no
bles sons win long live in history after
the bowling Dsrvishea who thus seek
TO insult and sxasperate vanished
foa, hare been forgotten
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-06-23

It is dangerous habit into which
we fall unconsciously perhaps, Of
speaking slightingly Of the honesty
or patriotism of our Lawmakers or
observation-disclosures. These men, in
more senses than one, are the repre-
sentatives of the people. That there
are cases of official corruption we
must sadly admit. That ambition
and greed sometimes rule in legisla-
tive halls and executive Offices we
cannot deny. But not all men in
private life are perfectly honest. Not
all men outside of capitol buildings
are entirely devoid of self-seeking or
Of the passion Of money-getting.-
How many Of US are absolutely judi
cial and impartial in our decisions of
questions that affect our personal in
terests9 How many Of us look at
such matters with unprejudiced eyes ?
It i'll becomes us, therefore, to set
up public men as the target OF our
shafts Of raillery. And, moreover,
this constant storm of abuse has the
effect of tending at least to produce
the very thing which it condemns
Let q public man come to believe that
he will be abused anyhow, and very
much of his motive for honest and
efficient service is taken away. On
the contrary, let him feel that he is
respected by the community which
he serves, and his motive for faithful
ness is much enhanced.
That our public service State and
national-might be improved, we do
not for moment question. That
there is often crude and unwise leg
islatioD, that there is executive feeble
ness, that there is downright dishon-
esty, in cases not few, We must ad-
NIT. Yet on the other hand we must
confess that there are Legislators who
bring trained skill to bear in framing
measures for the public good; there
are officers who are very Spartans in
their execution of the law; there are
men who scorn q bride and who cam
not be bought
We should condemn at the polls
the men who prove faithless to their
trusts. We should not condone off,
cial naalfeasance If the offender hap
pens to be Of our party. We should
have = high standard for our public
men. But the habit. far too preva-
lent Of indiscriminating attacks upon
the patriotism, the good sense, the
integrity Of our public men, is per.
nicious one. Better far would it be
for us to heed the Scripture iniunc'
ton: Thou shalt not speak evil q
the ruler Of thy people. /"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-06-23

New York Herald: ssThe way to
treat nihilism is to put the heel of q
stout number ten government boot
on it, and be sure that inside the
boot is solid and heavy foot"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-06-23

The way to abolish poverty is for
every one to attend strictly to his
own business and let the business of
other people alone.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-06-23

st. Louis Republican: ssThe issue
in 1883 will be, not whether the Dem
ocratic party will reform the tariff,
but whether it has reformed it."
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-06-23

The trouble with John Sherman is
he forgets the country has emerged
from the period of Returning Boards.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-06-23

CLAIMS under the Mexican Pension
Act have been fled in the pension
efice to the number Of 18, 200, Of
which $500 are in behalf Of persons
past 20 years Of age, and most Of
them widows. Halt Of the claimants
are probably over sixty. In the fiscal
wear which will close on the 30th inst,
more names will have been put on the
persion rolls than in any previous
year Of our history.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-06-23

A dozen passengers lost their lives
by the burning Of q steamer off Lake
Champlain early last Friday morning.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-06-23

The Senate of the 50th Congress
will stand 80 Republicans, including
Riddleburger, and 81 Democrats.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-06-23

Memphis Avalanche: .Several
Presidential booms have already hit
the eartn hard enough to make hole'
III the ground"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-06-23
News Nubs.

Alabama spends one-third of her
entire revenue for public schools.
Cotton raising is growing indus
try in several counties Of Kansas.
Russia has decided to increase the
duties on cotton yarns and starch.
Gov. Torres, of Sonora, Mexico,
offers 800 each for the heads of
Apaches.
An epidemic of rabies among dogs
and cattle prevails in Calhoun coun-
ty, Florida.
Seven cars of tomatoes were ship
ped from Crystal Springs, Miss, on
the 14th inst.
It is reported that 800, 900 man.
ufacturing company is being organic
ed at Ringgold, Ga.
A syndicate of st. Louis capitalists
is buying up the oil and timber lands
in the vicinity of Rusk, Texas.
Georgians, near Savannah, are
making superior quality of wine
from their surplus strawberries.
James r. Keene is said to have
made fortune or two during the
past few weeks in California mining
stocks.
A Cleveland, Ohio, syndicate of
capitalists has contracted for part of
the work Of draining the valley of
Mexico.
Thibet has hitherto heen closed to
foreign traders, but some Russians
have succeeded in establishing them
selves there.
VIM. Hogan, Of Wilcox county, Ga,
has 10 children living and four dead;
has 81 grandchildren and great
grandchildren.
The Virginia Democratic Executive
Committee has decided to call the
State convention for the 4th of Au-
gust next at Roanoke.
The New Hampshire Legislature
in joint session last Thursday declar.
ed VIM. E. Chandler elected Senator
for Pixies unexpired term.
An epidemic of fux is raging in
Bedford county, Virginia, humble,
of deaths have occurred and scarcely
a family in large area has escaped
the disease.
The price for a license to sell liquor
in Bushnell, Ill, is $4,000, and YET
six saloon men have applied for Ii
censes. This represents about 81:
apiece from every man, woman and
child in the town.
/ It is reported that the sales of tn
FIVE leading American magazines tina
are reissued in England are create
in that country than the aggregate
sales of the twenty-five magazine
published in the United Kingdom.
| Between July l, 1886, and April ]
1887, the membership of the Knight
of Labor in New York city and vi
cinity decreased from 104,469 t,
81, 1913, the actual falling off being
42,676, or a trife over 40 per cent.
Europe has 121, 2O5 miles Of rail
road, America has 155,737 miles
Asia 49, 91, Africa 1926 and Aus
tralia s,O45. Thus the total railwa,
mileage OF the world is 800, 083 miles
America possesses more milea of rail
road than all the rest of the world.
| Now 0rlaana Ghroniclo. eth
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-06-23
The wheat and coffee bubbles ex-
ploded last week and the fellows who
blew them got wet.

Forty-seven counties of Michigan
voted in favor Of local option and 46
against, at the late election.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-06-23

Some one has calculated that the
people of the United States spends
$40, O00, 900 a year on patent medi-
cines.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-06-23
The Old South.
charlestop Nevs ana courier.

Charleston Nova and Courier.
.n I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let
my right hand forget her cunning"
So sang the discousolate children Of
Israel in their captivity as they hang |
ed their unstrung harps upon the
willows and sat down By the rivers OF
Babylon and wept. There is no moro |
pathetic picture in the history Of the |
human race than the constancy with
which this peculiar people, even in |
their deepest sorrow, ever turned their
longing eyes towards Jerusalem
However hard their tasks, cherries
their condition and hopeless their fu-
ture, they were faithful to the GUS
toms and traditions of their race. It
is easy to fancy that, whether camp
ing under Judean skies, cropping in
Egyptian darkness or marching
through the Wilderness, the patriarch
would gather the young ones about
them and teach them to hold fast by
the faith Of the fathers, and to cher
ish above all things the memory Of
the great achievements of the men
who made the name of Israel immor-
tai.
With very much the same feeling Of
reverence as that with which the
young Jew put on the mantle of the
assembled Prophet, may we of this
day and generation imbibe the spirit
and emulate the virtues of the great
men who led the armies of the Rev
olution, who wrote the Declaration Of
Independence, who were the victors
in the war with Mexico, who admin
isterd the Government of the United
States for eighty years with signal
ability, who commended steadfastly for
long years against the world in arms
for the principlesof the Constitution;
who have added more than three
billion acres to the national domain,
who have ever stood In the forefront
of American craftsmanship tho
prophets, priests and kings of the
Old South!
The address of Gen. d. III. Hill be-
fore the Confederate veterans of Ma
ryland is notable contribution to the
history Of our times. He belongs to
the Old South. He crooks not the
knee to the new spirit which would
make Southern men, women and chill
dren forget the things that are be-
hind, and keep step with the march
of the iconoclasts who would SOW with
salt the ground where once our al
tars stood. He shows what the Old
South, with it's old-fashioned ideas OF
political integrity, has done to make
this great nation what it is, and that
it is not treason, even in this day OF
iron furnaces, cotton mills and free
labor, to remember the old names, the
old ideas and the old traditions which
make up so much that is sacred in
the history Of the Union. General
Hill shows what the Old South has
accomplished. What has the New
South donea
Gen. Hills address may sound like
q sweet bell tangled out Of tune, but
it will put the young and the old to
thinking. The Old Sotuh has passed
into history, but the New South viii
be all the grander if they who shape
its future and control it's destiny viii
but follow in the footsteps of the
great men Of the past, whose lives
were controlled by principle and
whose efforts were exerted for the
good Of the country.
State Praaa Cnunmanf
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-06-23

Money spens1n building manufac-
tories in Louisiana will be money
well spent.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-10-08

then took off his coat and worked away
till his face was in blaze, and beads Of
respiration rolled down bis cheeks.
"Those young rascalsl'' he said. "They
must have tied the clapper." Upon which,
two men volunteered to go up and see.
They soon returned with the intelligence
that the clapper was "gone entirely"
But the Commodore could not believe it,
or was 30 obstin ate that he would not till
had the evidence with his own eyes.
Sure enough-gone it was.
Nor did it re-appear in its proper place
till the next Saturday night. When the
sexton went to ring for church Ga Sun
day morning, there it was, as il nothing
had happened. OF course it made the
talk OF the town, and everybody thought
that Bybury had some very remarkable
boys. They were now given full permits
sion to ring that bell as much as they
wanted to at midnight before every COM
ing Fourth Of July as long as they lived;
but because they could do it, they did
not care to, and never did after that me-
morable occasion. And their secret has
been kept all these years-the boys are
now men-and nobody knows to this day
who took that clapper off and put it on
ain.-Selected.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-10-08
A CANINE PROTECTOR.

A St. Bernard dog who lives ear Bos-
ton, proves great solace to widow to
whom he does not belong. Dogs usually
con6ne their care to their own household
but this one, recognizing the unprotected
state of the widow, who lives alone ex.
tends his services to her house. She is
afraid OF tramps who pass her house on
the way to Boston. The farmer who
owns the dog, therefore, when he sees a
suspicious character coming up the road
says to his dog:
"Jack, go over to Mrs. Il. s and sit on
her piazza till the tramp gets by"
Whereupon the dog runs over to Mrs
HIS, posts himself at the door, and if the
tramp comes up the walk, steps forward
and growls at him. As the dog is big
one and rather forbidding, though he
has never been known to bite any one
the tramp, in ninety-nine cases out OF g
hundred, remembers that it is getting
late and that he hasn't any time to foo
away along the road. When he is vel
out of sight, the dog returns home.
The dog carries his gallantry to the
same lady to such an extent that wheI
she is visiting his masters house of al
evening he always accompanies her hom'
to the door of her house. Neao Yorl
Tribune.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-10-08
HOW MOTHERS ARE SOME
TIMES TREATED.

The following touching story is told
by a gentleman who travelled in the West:
THE LITTLE SHEPHERD DOGS.
The best of these dogs are worth 5000,
or even more. One berder, whom we
met at Gold Spring ranch, showed us
a very pretty one that he said he would
not sell for $500. She had at that
time four young puppies. The night we
arrived we visited his camp, and we're
greatly interested in the little mother
and her nursing babies. Amid those
motherly devotion and baby trust was
very beautiful. While we we're exclaim-
ing, the assistant herder came to say that
there were more than tw enty sheep miss
ing. Two male dogs, both larger than
the little mother, were standing about
with their hands in their breaches, doing
nothing. But the herier said neither
Tom nor Dick would find them; Flora
must go. It was urged by the assistant
that her foot was sore, that she had been
hard at work all day, was nearly worn
out and must feed her puppies. The
boss insisted that she must go. The sun
was setting. There was no time to lose.
Flora was called and told to hunt for
lost sheep, while her master pointed to a
gceat forest, through the edge of which
they had passed on their way up. She rails
ed her head, but seemed very 10th to leave
her babies. The boss called sharply to
her. She rose, looking tired and low
spirited, with head and tail down, and
trotted YEARLY off toward the forest. I
said:
sThat's too bad"
"Oh, she'll be right back. She's light
ming on stray sheep"
The next morning l went over to learn
whether Flora found the strays. While
we were speaking, the sheep we're return
ing driven by little dog, who did not
raise her head nor wag her tail, even
when spoken to, but crawled to her
puppies and lay down by them. She
had been out all night, and while her
hungry babies were Juggling away fell
asleep. have never seen anything so
touching. So far as I was concerned,
"there was not dry eye in the house."
How often that scene comes back to
me. The vast, gloomy forest, and that
little creature with the sore foot, and her
heart crying for her babies, limping and
creeping about in the wild canons all
through the long, dark hours, finding
and gathering in the lost sheep.
There are other than dog mothers who
often have like fare. The dog stands for
fidelity and sacrifice, and we have heard
it said that the best part Of human be-
ing is the dog in him. = Kindergarten.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-10-08
Sieve, son. the a

-Steyei son, the author of "Dr. Je-
kyll and Mr.. Hyde" has stirred up hor-
nets nest in literary circles. A CORES
pondent of the New York Evening Post
discovered some fancied resemblance be-
tween the Englishman's story and Poe's
civilian Wilson," and now the amateur
litterati are at work unearthing all the
old tales and legends which involve du-
plicate bodies ana spirits. The only sim
ilarity between Poe's and Stevenson's
stories is that each treats of double ex.
istence, whish is not original with either
of them. The originality is in the treat.
ment of the idea, which is entirely unlike
in the two tales.-Bdltipaore American.